Special Gala Event
April 09, 2009 at the Johnson Geo Centre
175 Signal Hill Road
7 p.m. – Gathering
7:30 p.m. – Visual Presentation and Reading
8-9 p.m. – Cocktail Reception
“To have the quiet wisdom carried in Tom Dawe’s finely crafted poems in complex conversation with Gerald Squires’ powerfully inscaped paintings: the overtones are endless. To recall a similarly inspired [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Breakwater Releases Tom Dawe and Gerald Squires’ Critically Acclaimed Art-Poetry Collaboration: Where Genesis Begins
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Faulkner, my son, you’re only an amateur”: Harold Walters of The Advertiser Reviews Nicole Lundrigan’s The Seary Line
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I was fewer than fifty pages into the book when I realized thoughts of American novelist William Faulkner were dallying in my mind, along with the details of Lundrigan’s narration … Faulkner, my son, you’re only an amateur … a dandy read, sown with people and incidents as fecund as a freshly plowed field. As well as [...]
Breakwater Author Eric Sparling Makes Sackville’s Top 5 Bestsellers This Week, According to Telegraphjournal.com
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fiction, paperback
1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown and Company)
2. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (Random House)
3. Tantramar by Eric Sparling (Breakwater)
4. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden (Penguin)
5. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (HarperCollins)
Click Here to buy or read more about Tantramar
The Packet Encourages Readers to “Hurry and Get a Copy” of Len Rich’s Bill Bennett: A Biography
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Bill Bennett: A Biography isn’t a big book — only 100 pages — yet it is the story of a big man and well worth a read. Hurry and get yourself a copy.”
Click Here to read more about Bill Bennett: A Biography
The Basic How-to’s of Submitting a Manuscript to a Publisher
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Breakwater Books Ltd. is offering a workshop on how to submit your manuscript to a publisher on Saturday, March 21st, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., at Breakwater Books, 100 Water Street, St. John’s. In this workshop, the Breakwater managing editor and assistant editor will discuss how to present your manuscript in the best possible [...]
March Hare Festival 2009: Line ups and Program
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Download the March Hare 2009 Program
Click here for a quick listing of line ups and locations for the 2009 March Hare.
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Click Here to buy or read about the March Hare Anthology, featuring works from past participants such as Michael Ondaatje, Michael Winter, Michael Crummey, Lisa Moore, John Steffler, Alistair MacLeod, Al Pittman, and Wayne Johnston.
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